China vs United States: Annual change in primary energy from gas

China
86.65 terawatt-hours
in 2025
United States
119.16 terawatt-hours
in 2025
China rank
3rd
United States rank
1st

Annual change in primary energy from gas over time

  • China
  • United States
-50005001.0k196619952025

How they compare

United States currently reports 119.16 terawatt-hours against 86.65 terawatt-hours in China, a difference of 32.5 terawatt-hours.

That makes United States's figure about 1.4 times China's.

The two have swapped places 28 times across 60 shared years of data; in 1966 it was United States ahead.

China ranks 3rd and United States ranks 1st of 76 countries.

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About this data

Indicator
Annual change in primary energy from gas
Unit
terawatt-hours
Source
Energy Institute - Statistical Review of World Energy (2026); Smil (2017) – with major processing by Our World in Data
Licence
CC BY 4.0 (Our World in Data)
Coverage
79 places, 4,097 data points, 1966–2025
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Change in total energy supply relative to the previous year, measured in terawatt-hours.